The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival abilities: functional brain regeneration.

Axolotls — aquatic salamanders with an exceptional regenerative ability — rapidly increase their production of proteins in response to wounds. An axolotl-specific evolutionary divergence in a key ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mapping limb regeneration is an intricate, molecular dance. If an axolotl loses a leg, it gets a new one–complete with a ...

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In a paper published in the journal Cell, researchers documented how this body-wide response in axolotl salamanders is triggered by the sympathetic nervous system—the iconic "fight or flight" network.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The axolotl may look cartoonishly harmless, but beneath its frilly gills lies one of evolution’s most astonishing survival ...

A gene found in salamanders could one day help humans regrow lost limbs, a breakthrough that sounds like science fiction but is gaining real scientific traction. Researchers at Wake Forest University ...